The NESARC used the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism's Alcohol Use Disorder and Associated Disabilities Interview Schedule DSM-IV version (AUDADIS-IV), a structured diagnostic interview made for non-clinician interviewers (Gorwood, 2003). Algorithms were designed to produce diagnoses of alcohol dependence consistent with the final DSM-IV criteria. Several studies have documented good to excellent retest reliability (Grant et al., 1995).
